"I'm writing this book because we're all going to die."

-- Jack Kerouac

#Wisdom Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get.... This whole island [Manhattan] was once bought for a few strings of beads. But now you will find this property valued by its earning power, by its rent power, and that is the way to value a railroad or telegraph.”

Source : "Jay Gould: A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, in The Review of Reviews. Testimony to the New York Senate Committee on Labor and Education, February 1893.
“I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that then become poems.”

Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.
“The product of movement and counter-movement is tension. When tension working strength is expressed, it endows the work of art with the living effect of coordinated, though opposing, forces.”
“Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.”
“Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth”

Source : Robert Earl Hayden (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.166, University of Michigan Press
“Lunch is like, my first real meal of the day. I cannot eat anything in the morning, my body...I can only eat about two hours after I wake up.”
“Either there is a God or there isn't. Both possibilities are frightening.”
“Resistance will continue as long as the occupation and aggression continues. There is no recognition of Israel, no matter what the cost is.”

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